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The director general was assisted by the first architect to the King (premier architecte du Roi) and the first painter to the King (premier peintre du Roi), a staff of inspectors, architects and several hundred workmen. [4] Much of the work was left to the director's first lieutenants, such as Robert de Cotte and Gilles-Marie Oppenord.
River façade of the Pavillon du Roi (1576), engraved by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. The Pavillon du Roi (French pronunciation: [pavijɔ̃ dy ʁwa]) was a tower-like structure built in the mid-16th century at the southern end of the Lescot Wing of the Louvre Palace. On its main floor (piano nobile) was the primary apartment of the king of ...
The Maison du Roi (French pronunciation: [mɛzɔ̃ dy ʁwa], 'King's Household') was the royal household of the King of France. It comprised the military, domestic, and religious entourage of the French royal family during the Ancien Régime and Bourbon Restoration .
Product data management (PDM) is the name of a business function within product lifecycle management (PLM) that denotes the management and publication of product data. [1] In software engineering, this is known as version control. The goals of product data management include ensuring all stakeholders share a common understanding, that confusion ...
By 1740, the petit appartement du roi had expanded to such an extent into the cour du roi that the eastern part of this courtyard became a separate courtyard. This new courtyard was called the cour intérieur du roi (1740 plan II) and the cour du roi was renamed cour des cerfs. This new name was due to the two dozen sculpted deer heads that ...
Charles Le Brun, portrait by Nicolas de Largilliere. The Premier peintre du Roi (French pronunciation: [pʁəmje pɛ̃tʁ dy ʁwa]; First painter to the King) was a court painter position within the administration of the Bâtiments du Roi of the Département de la Maison du Roi in France under the Ancien Régime.
Le roi s'amuse (French pronunciation: [lə ʁwa samyz]; literally, The King Amuses Himself or The King Has Fun) is a French play in five acts written by Victor Hugo. First performed on 22 November 1832 but banned by the government after one evening, the play was used for Giuseppe Verdi 's 1851 opera Rigoletto .
The Bureau du Roi (French pronunciation: [byʁo dy ʁwa], 'the King's desk'), also known as Louis XV's roll-top desk (French: Secrétaire à cylindre de Louis XV), is the richly ornamented royal cylinder desk which was constructed at the end of Louis XV's reign, and is now again in the Palace of Versailles.